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Starting Pitching: B- Bullpen: B+ Offense: B- Defense: D Manager: D Erik, I don't agree with you very much because you hate on my boy, however, I am going to agree with you here. (not that you care but for what it's worth) I think you are being overly fair on the offense. Noone outside of Hanley Ramirez is a threat in that lineup. I gave the offense a C.

I thought Conine was horrible. All he could talk about was Jamie Moyer and how old and good he was. For him being a Marlins broadcaster, you would have thought he had a fettish with Jamie Moyer and wanted the Phils to win. I was disappointed.

Starting pitching- B+ JJ is the man and everyone else is O.K. Bullpen- B (this is because they haven't cost the team too many losses, yeah at times they haven't pitched well, but still they haven't cost the team many games) Hitting- C- (situational hitting and we have 1 guy hitting over .300) Bench- C Fielding- F (Marlins are top 3 team in errors in the majoe leagues) Anything hit to Dan Uggla isn't going to be caught and don't count on Hanley diving for a ball this season (he's got to protect that shoulder) Amezaga is the teams best fielder and he is out. Managment- F (Fredi doesn't know how to manage a bullpen-Kiko and Pinto will end up on the DL again. Mark Wiley doesn't know what he is doing.) Overall grade: C or C+

He'll be back before they head out West for the Padres and Dodgers series.

I wonder what happened to Matt Cain He sucked that what happened. Every once in awhile players in the big leagues have baseball nights-Matt Capps had a baseball night tonight-plus he isn't that good.

Matt Capps just blew a 7-3 lead to Philly.... Winning run on second for Phillies in the 9th Adding a closer is not the answer. We need another bat in the lineup. The starting pitching and the hitters 1-2 and 4-9 are hurting us right now. Not the bullpen; hell the Marlins can't even get to the bullpen right now.

Don Fleer, just retired as president of the players union this spring training, told the Marlins players that they played for the worst organization in baseball (straight from the horses mouth). My question is why is the FO "bolstering" the bullpen when in reality it's not even that bad! They need a power bat because if they don't score runs, then how can the bullpen save the games? The bullpen hasn't cost us that many games, it's the offense not being able to score runs with runners in scoring position. Except for Hanley and Cantu (who is sruggling IMO) who else has RBI's. There is absolutely no threat (the only threat is a late rally where someone ends up poping out to 2nd base to lose the game) in this lineup before and after Hanley Ramirez. Trade Lindstrom and whoever else to get a power bat. With all these "veterans" they will surely find reliable bullpen help, if not a closer. Just get it done already!

I posted this on his latest blog: Hey Hanley, everyone at the MarlinsBaseball.com forums love watching you play and lead this team closer to the playoffs! Hit one out for us next game! You should also type this: Hey Hanley we all love watching you hit the ball like crazy, but lets see a little more hustle on defense and perhaps dive for a ball hit in the hole that you possibly could get if you'd try. If you do then people would actually consider you being as good as Albert Pujols.

Volstad is not that good, what more can you say. He dug us a hole that makes it tough to come back from. The Piraets, hahahaha must be some kind of joke right?

Your ideas are wacked.

I voted the Nationals as the players of the game since they are 30+ games back of .500. Nice job by the bullpen today.

Albert is 10 times the defender that Hanley is too. Hanley will be considered and that's about it.

I like Dan Meyer at closer. He did a good job there tonight.

Lindstroms been fine, he's pitched to situations. I didn't like that Phillies game he melted down in, but he was back from injury too soon and wasn't ready. I wish he'd keep his ERA down, but if he's not losing it for us, he's fine. He's 10x better then Kevin Gregg regardless of how he gives us a heart attack. Matt Lindstrom: I don't Drink, I don't Dip, I don't Smoke, and I don't do Cardiologists and Emergency Rooms any favors. Join me in making this an Elderly Free South Floria. i don't think he's been better than gregg. lindstrom has been shaky this season as gregg was shaky last season. i would take the 07 gregg over this season's lindstrom. but it doesn't matter what we think. bonifacio will continue to play at 3rd and lindstrom will continue to be the closer and nunez will continue to come in to get him out of jams. Getting him out of jams? Getting out of jams means he doesn't allow any runners to score. So far, he hasn't done that good. Getting him out of jams....hahahahaha that's awesome.

In the role Kiko Calero was being, wrongly, used/wasted in. On the DL

The bullpen hierarchy is fine. I hate splitsing out major events, but if you take out the epic Philly meltdown and the one bad game (non closing situation) in Tampa, Lindstrom has this line. 27.1 IP, 2.30 era, 1.46 whip (24 H, 16 BB), 0 HR, 7.9 K/9 Yes, the walks are atrocious, but those two games are epicly making his season line look bad. (Great for pending arbitration though!) Lindstrom does a great job not giving up HR/XBH which keeps his era down. He is/can be a very effective as a mid 1.30 whip pitcher (like last year). We're talking a couple of walks here and everything is literally fine. Lindstrom Nunez-Meyer Pinto Sanches Badenhop Wood Not a big deal. Hopefully Calero comes back strong. And who said Nunez sucks lately? He's given up runs once in June, and his last four outings against the AL East have been 3.1 innings, 0 R, 3 base runners. Sanches has only given up 1 run in 15 innings, with a 1.33 whip. Even Badenhop is at a really respectable 1.37 whip and looks real good in long relief. We're in pretty good shape here as long as no one else gets hurt. Don't forget Vanden Hurk is lurking, and Anibal is back from injury soon and who knows where he ends up if West keeps throwing well. How about we bitch about no one on the team besides Hanley and Gload having an OPS over .800. Uggla, Hermida, or Cantu needs to step up real soon and be that big time # 2 guy in our lineup. Or, how about our starting 3B is the worst positional starter in baseball. Great post! You know you are goingt to get sh*t for that though don't you? Especially talking about taking out the Philly melt down and one other bad outing. I've already tried to explain this in recent posts but people are too stupid to realize that the situation is not that bad yet. The only thing that is hurt are Lindstrom's numbers and fans expectations. The team is winning and that's what is important. We should start a thread about Uggla and how he is hitting .215 (?) and has looked really bad defensively. He hits homeruns, once in awhile, and his situational hitting is atrocious. IMO he has hurt the team more with his bat than Lindstrom has by blowing 2 saves this year. Yeah, from me. B/c every reliever on the team has had 1 or 2 bad outings that if you take it away from their line...their #'s are downright dominant. Why should it be different for Lindstrom? Even when you take away those 2 outings...a 1.46 WHIP isn't anywhere near impressive to say "oh, he'll be fine...it's just 2 bad outings!" How could we have guessed you'd have something to say. I'm shocked. Dominant?

The bullpen hierarchy is fine. I hate splitsing out major events, but if you take out the epic Philly meltdown and the one bad game (non closing situation) in Tampa, Lindstrom has this line. 27.1 IP, 2.30 era, 1.46 whip (24 H, 16 BB), 0 HR, 7.9 K/9 Yes, the walks are atrocious, but those two games are epicly making his season line look bad. (Great for pending arbitration though!) Lindstrom does a great job not giving up HR/XBH which keeps his era down. He is/can be a very effective as a mid 1.30 whip pitcher (like last year). We're talking a couple of walks here and everything is literally fine. Lindstrom Nunez-Meyer Pinto Sanches Badenhop Wood Not a big deal. Hopefully Calero comes back strong. And who said Nunez sucks lately? He's given up runs once in June, and his last four outings against the AL East have been 3.1 innings, 0 R, 3 base runners. Sanches has only given up 1 run in 15 innings, with a 1.33 whip. Even Badenhop is at a really respectable 1.37 whip and looks real good in long relief. We're in pretty good shape here as long as no one else gets hurt. Don't forget Vanden Hurk is lurking, and Anibal is back from injury soon and who knows where he ends up if West keeps throwing well. How about we bitch about no one on the team besides Hanley and Gload having an OPS over .800. Uggla, Hermida, or Cantu needs to step up real soon and be that big time # 2 guy in our lineup. Or, how about our starting 3B is the worst positional starter in baseball. Great post! You know you are goingt to get sh*t for that though don't you? Especially talking about taking out the Philly melt down and one other bad outing. I've already tried to explain this in recent posts but people are too stupid to realize that the situation is not that bad yet. The only thing that is hurt are Lindstrom's numbers and fans expectations. The team is winning and that's what is important. We should start a thread about Uggla and how he is hitting .215 (?) and has looked really bad defensively. He hits homeruns, once in awhile, and his situational hitting is atrocious. IMO he has hurt the team more with his bat than Lindstrom has by blowing 2 saves this year.

Lindstrom has been bad, but we are winning with him as our closer. Keep him as our closer. If he implodes, say blows 2 or 3 straight saves, remove him. If he improves and pitches very well, we have our closer. Sorry about my comments yesterday, right now he needs all the supporters he can get (thanks for supporting). I was just frustrated because Lindstrom is under-achieving this year. A lot of people expected him to be pretty good this year, and he has been pretty bad if you look at his stats other than saves and opportunities.

What options do we have? Keep Leo in set-up role and trade for a trustworthy closer before trade deadline? Demote Lindstrom in the pen, keep Nunez at set-up role and do a committee of Calero/Meyer? Let's just put Calero in the closers role, oh wait he's on the DL with a sore shoulder. No sh*t, when he's off the DL I have no idea. He is our best reliever but he does us absolutely no good on the DL.

What options do we have? Keep Leo in set-up role and trade for a trustworthy closer before trade deadline? Demote Lindstrom in the pen, keep Nunez at set-up role and do a committee of Calero/Meyer? Let's just put Calero in the closers role, oh wait he's on the DL with a sore shoulder.

Nunez? Seriously? He's been just as bad lately. He's had a much better year. So? We're talking about our closer, and people automatically mention Nunez. He's probably one of the worst choices right now. 3.58 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 29 K's in 32.2 innings. .202 opponents batting average; .621 .OPS against. I see what you're saying now... What's your point to this thread Erick? Everybody who reads on this forum has heard read your comments about Lindstrom; seriously what are you trying to prove with this? Everyone who follows the Marlins knows that he has been bad. We know that, what else is there to talk about unless you are bobbob1313 and his fettish with "magical abilities."

Lindstrom has only cost the Marlins 1 game this season. He has 3 blown saves and 2 blown loses. He has 2 blown saves, and yes, it only cost us 1 game b/c we won one of those blown saves. Still doesn't mean he's pitched well. Just so you know, he wasn't happy with the way he pitched today. In my opinion he has been far less of what I expected him to do this year. He has disappointed, but of course he is trying to do his best. He's not trying to strike out A-Rod and get 2 outs and all of a sudden say I'm going to make this thing interesting and try to piss all of the fans off by allowing 3 hits, a walk, and 2 runs. Fact is he hasn't been sharp, he's gotten lucky at times, been good at times, and this is the term that desribes inconsistency. He said that he couldn't feel the ball come out of his hand on that last pitch to Jeter and luckily for him he rolled it over to Hanley. His arm was tired and his elbow hurts a little bit from throwing side sessions in Boston and pitching back to back to back days. He absolutely got lucky today, he's just glad he didn't let the team down or the fans (although he inevitably has in ways because fans have huge expectations).

Before all the hating on Lindstrom comes on the post, to whoever reads this and wants to hate, F*** you, he got the job done. Yeah it was scary, but it's the Yankees for crying out loud. They have hitters who can hit realize that. Marlins win that's all that matters. Calm down, dude. I've been defending Lindstrom for a while, and even I was dissapointed. Calm down? I was totally calm before I wrote this post. It's sad when you can predetermine what the forum was going to be because of what happened tonight. Why were you disappointed? Because he got 2 outs and the Yankees decided they wanted to make it a close game by putting 3 hits together? There were 11 blown saves tonight in MLB and yeah it could have been 12, but it wasn't. I agree with you that he needs to be more consistent. From an individual standpoint his statistics blow (giving up a 7 spot and a 4 spot killed his era and it's unfortunate that you can't take that away-it is what it is), but looking at it from a team perspective I'm glad that he was able to regroup and make a pitch to Jeter to end the game. I'm glad the team won. Kevin Gregg was the goat last year. Lindstrom is the goat in the 9th this year-I guess it comes with the job description. I appreciate you defending him, however, if you quit I'm sure he won't lose any sleep over it.

Before all the hating on Lindstrom comes on the post, to whoever reads this and wants to hate, F*** you, he got the job done. Yeah it was scary, but it's the Yankees for crying out loud. They have hitters who can hit realize that. Marlins win that's all that matters. Yeah, he got the "save." Btw, remember when you asked the other day? It's outings like these that often make the "save" stat an overrated stat. Yeah a 3 run "cushion" against the highest payroll in baseball with one of the best lineups money can buy; way overrated. Besides it's not about individual statistics, it's about winning as a team!

Before all the hating on Lindstrom comes on the post, to whoever reads this and wants to hate, F*** you, he got the job done. Yeah it was scary, but it's the Yankees for crying out loud. They have hitters who can hit realize that. Marlins win that's all that matters.